How to Use presymptomatic in a Sentence

presymptomatic

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• The video showed that the officer had spent just about a minute at a time within 6 feet of prisoners who were later revealed to be presymptomatic.
  — NBC News, 21 Oct. 2020
• Researchers have already shown that presymptomatic transmission has been playing a role in the spread of Covid-19—but to what degree is still not well understood.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 9 June 2020
• The first is a presymptomatic phase of 15 to 25 years during which amyloid builds up in the cerebral cortex, the brain’s outermost layer, in the absence of cognitive symptoms.
  — Jason Ulrich, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• Infectious disease researchers and the CDC have said presymptomatic people and people without symptoms can transmit the virus.
  — Brianna Abbott and Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• In addition, the use of face masks will reduce the amount of virus released from presymptomatic and asymptomatic individuals.
  — Seema Lakdawala, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2020
• People in the presymptomatic stage are highly contagious.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 11 June 2020
• This was an important step in preventing introduction of the virus in a setting with many young adults who could be asymptomatic or presymptomatic, Blaisdell and colleagues wrote in the CDC's weekly report.
  — Jacqueline Howard and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 26 Aug. 2020
• Those who tested positive and went on to develop symptoms within the 10 days will be categorized as presymptomatic.
  — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 1 June 2020
• What's the difference between asymptomatic and presymptomatic spread?
  — Alison Steinbach, azcentral, 12 June 2020
• Infectious disease experts in the U.S. have previously acknowledged that the virus can indeed spread from both asymptomatic and presymptomatic people.
  — NBC News, 22 Sep. 2020
• Because many coronavirus carriers are asymptomatic or presymptomatic, the more time people spend around others who may be infected, the higher the risk of becoming infected.
  — Aidin Vaziri, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2020
• Some studies, however, have estimated that people without symptoms (whether truly asymptomatic or presymptomatic) could be responsible for up to half of the spread, which is why the virus has been so difficult to contain.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 9 June 2020
• What's the difference between asymptomatic and presymptomatic?
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 11 June 2020
• Temperature checks won't weed out people who are asymptomatic or presymptomatic, and wearing an extra layer of clothes while out in public may also have no effect because there is no evidence the virus spreads via clothing, Englund said.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020
• Identifying asymptomatic and presymptomatic people could also enable a more aggressive contact tracing approach, Birx said in her talk this week.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 26 June 2020
• The model assumes Covid-19 may be most contagious during the presymptomatic stage, which is uncommon for a respiratory infection.
  — Sandee Lamotte and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 7 July 2020
• Are presymptomatic or asymptomatic people more contagious?
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 11 June 2020
• Doing so lowers, although does not eliminate, the risk that an infected individual who’s asymptomatic or presymptomatic may unwittingly expose others.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
• This is especially critical because asymptomatic, or presymptomatic, people account for nearly half of all coronavirus infections.
  — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2020
• Nonetheless, both Chu and Yang said the high rate of asymptomatic and presymptomatic transmission highlights the need for continued mitigation measures, especially to protect vulnerable populations such as children under 5 and the immunocompromised.
  — Byjennifer Henderson | Medpage Today, ABC News, 11 May 2022
• That kind of information, Sheinerman says, could help drug developers and clinical researchers to better identify people with presymptomatic Alzheimer’s who might be good candidates for an experimental therapy that’s undergoing clinical evaluation.
  — Elie Dolgin, Scientific American, 17 June 2020

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024